Steve Jobs and Rupert Murdoch, BFF? — Not likely. One is a life-long Democrat. The other runs a right-wing media empire. — Murdoch. Credit: World Economic Forum — The Sunday Guardian, borrowing a phrase and most of its facts from a Woman's Wear Daily piece posted three days earlier …

Is Alexander Lebedev's journalism crusade an empty one? — Alexander Lebedev's Society of Editors talk revealed a principled proprietor but he needs to back up words with action — Alexander Lebedev, ex-spy, current banker, entrepreneur and newspaper proprietor, came to charm the Society …

Dining Out on Different Budgets — Views from readers, responses from the staff and thoughts from Arthur S. Brisbane, the public editor. — I'm a loyal Times reader, but lately I have grown dismayed by the reviews of restaurants that the vast majority of New Yorkers cannot afford to patronize.

Fox News ‘Nazi’ Rhetoric Starts At The Top … Fox News and NPR once again found themselves in the news Thursday, this time driven by the comments of Fox News chief Roger Ailes, who in published remarks referred to NPR executives as “Nazis” for terminating the contract of news analyst Juan Williams.

Statistics and storytelling: the grudge match? — Narrative journalism has been dogged for years by the idea that it is too subjective or somehow less capable of conveying hard numbers to the public than a traditional news story. In a world where data mining and visualizations have become …

Weekness and Endurance — Just over a week ago, Newsweek announced that it is going to merge with the online magazine The Daily Beast. Since then, cyberspace has echoed with pessimistic commentary about the future of this new entity. After all, why should anyone think that two money-losing organizations …

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